LO3: Audio levels

SOUND EDITING

After making an offline edit we added in appropriate music to fit the genre, after much deliberation this ended up being an instrumental rendition of deck the halls (royalty free). Due to the small amount of audio editing that needed doing, I used the pre Installed sound editing software on Adobe Premier pro to make the suitable adjustments to sound levels throughout the video.


 

Using key frames as shown in the above screenshot, I chose to dip the levels in the audio of the soundtrack so that the voices could be heard clearly, however did not take it to an level when the music could no longer be heard - this signifies to the target audience that someone is about to start talking and also the beginning to the narrative which reinforces the festive theme. This remained the case throughout the time the actors were speaking so that it could be heard clearly what they were trying to put across. 

This is a technique that I learnt about through my research as all the examples I looked at from department stores where there was dialogue had a Similar fade in and out when the audio changed in some way - this is so that the audience doesn't become confused by an array of sounds and more importantly so that the message isn't lost.

When the actors had finished talking, the opposite happened to fade back into the instrumental by changing the dB sliders back up to 5.0dB this therefore created an indicator so that it was clear when someone had finished their lines. In addition to this , one of the actors when being dressed with a microphone had dislodged it from the place it was originally put therefore there was an underlying crackle to her entire audio - to rectify this, I used the audio effects panel in premier as shown to the right to find the Decrackler which I then applied to the audio track to smooth out and reduce any background noise the microphone picked up on.